Christopher Eccleston played the Ninth Doctor for one series, reviving Doctor Who successfully and then leaving after a single year, which he has since attributed to conflict with the production.
Shallow Grave, Jude and 28 Days Later gave him film work, and Our Friends in the North on television is regarded as among the best British drama of its decade.
Thor: The Dark World buried him under prosthetics as Malekith, an experience he has described dismissively, and he has written openly about anorexia.
Cate BlanchettElizabeth (1998) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shekhar Kapur made a Tudor film that behaves like a political thriller, with Cate Blanchett moving from frightened prisoner to constructed icon across two hours. She lost Best Actress…
Brendan GleesonDanny Boyle directs the British zombie film about a man waking from a coma to find London depopulated by a rage virus. 28 Days Later is Danny Boyle's 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a bicycle courier who wakes from…
Alakina MannAmenabar's 2001 haunted house with Nicole Kidman. WWII period, light-sensitive children, accumulated dread.
Anthony HopkinsChristopher Eccleston wasted as Malekith. The first MCU film that feels like industrial franchise routine.
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